"Zardari sahib, while addressing the crowd at Naudero on his father-in-law's death anniversary, said that he will make the next prime minister."

"Is he delusional? I mean the party has no presence in Punjab and however much Panama may damage the Prime Minister and his heir apparent, the First Daughter, constituency politics as well as the fact that electoral reform committee headed by AID has done nothing..."

"Please be sensible."

"Hey, you can't deny that Zardari sahib is being delusional. I mean granted that he will get Sindh again in spite of Mian sahib's recent announcements of allocations from our tax money to Sindh..."

"No, that's not what I was referring to when I said be sensible. You cannot and must not refer to Ishaq Dar as the Approver anymore..."

"Even though he is the only individual perhaps in our long and well documented history of lotas, who actually gave an affidavit in his own writing against his party leader?"

"Even though... and secondly, whatever the verdict on the Panama case, the PML-N may lose a few cities, and I am not sure how much the Metro in several Punjab cities will help the party by convincing the electorate that a Metro trumps Panama any day, but the party will not be dead and out and will win substantial seats in Punjab - not as many as before but still..."

"But any seats that PML-N may lose would benefit the Khan not Zardari sahib!"

"OK, but Zardari sahib will retain or improve his seats from Sindh, how much improvement would depend on the MQM 1, 2 and 3..."

"Agreed and so I forecast PTI and PML-N will get seats but perhaps not enough to form the next government, see in that case Zardari sahib will make the next prime minister - he didn't say the next prime minister would be from his party, did he!"

"Ah yes, so as long as Mian sahib and the Khan don't make any inroads into rural Sindh Zardari sahib would remain relevant."

"I guess."-Business Recorder